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Soft tissue sarcoma (STS) is a heterogeneous group of neoplasms, encompassing > 80 different histologic subtypes. Approximately three quarter of sarcoma arise from soft-tissue, about 15% are gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GISTs) and bone sarcoma represent the remaining 10%. The current guidelines will focus on soft-tissue and GIST, excluding Kaposi sarcoma and non-pleomorphic rhabdomyosarcoma. Bone sarcomas are covered in a different paper.
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Soft tissue sarcoma (STS) and gastrointestinal tumors (GIST) encompass > 80 different histologic subtypes. Clinical practice guidelines for STS and GIST still lack in Latin-American countries. Tailored clinical guidelines are instrumental to improve outcome in sarcoma patients in LatinAmerican countries. This is the first review establishing STS and GIST guidelines for the purpose of LatinAmerican clinical practices to our knowledge.
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Publicado 2016
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Introduction: The selection of a medical specialty has been associated with multiple factors, such as personal preferences, academic exposure, motivational factors and sociodemographic factors, such as gender. The number of women in the medical field has increased in recent years. In Latin America, we have not found any studies that explore this relationship. Objective: To determine whether there is an association between gender and the intention to choose a medical specialty in medical students from 11 countries in Latin America. Methods: Secondary analysis of the Collaborative Working Group for the Research of Human Resources for Health (Red-LIRHUS) data; a multi-country project of students in their first year and fifth year of study, from 63 medical schools in 11 Latin American countries. All students who referred intention to choose a certain medical specialty were considered as part...